Wojicki, Anne

The youngest of three daughters in the family of a teacher is Esther Wojicki (née Hochman ) and Stanley University professor of physics Stanley Wojicki. The sisters are Susan Wojicki, YouTube’s CEO and former manager at Google ^[2] and Janet Wojicki, an anthropologist and epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco ^[3] .

She spent her childhood at the Stanford campus, at the age of two years she began to engage in figure skating , later she was engaged in hockey ^[4] . She studied at the Ganne High School in Palo Alto , was the editor of the school newspaper The Oracle , for which she was awarded a scholarship for articles on sports ^{[3] [5]} . After she studied at Yale University , where she participated in figure skating competitions and played for the women's hockey team ^{[6] [7]} . She graduated from a biologist in 1996 ^[8] . During her studies, she conducted molecular biological studies at the National Institute of Health and the University of California at San Diego ^[5] .

After graduating, she worked as a health consultant in an investment fund from San Francisco PassportCapital ^[5] and Investor AB ^{[4] [6]} for 4 years, overseeing investments in biotechnology companies. Disappointed with the culture of Wall Street and its attitude to healthcare ^[9] , she left the funds in 2000, planning to get an MCAT and go to medical school, but instead she started research ^[4] .

In 2006, she became a co-founder with Linda Avey ^[10] of the 23andMe company, which provides services to individuals in genetic testing ^{[11] [12]} . The company is named after 23 pairs of chromosomes of a normal human cell. The Personal Genome test kit was named The Invention of the Year by Time magazine in 2008 ^{[13] [12]}

In October 2013, Fast Company magazine named Wodrzycki “The Bravest CEO” ^{[4] [14]} . In the same year, complications began in the company's activities, when the FDA ordered to suspend the provision of genetic test results to customers. As a result, 23andMe took up the development of drugs to continue its activities and began to collaborate with the research corporation Genentech . In February 2015, the company received FDA approval to conduct tests to check parents for the gene that causes Bloom’s syndrome in children (its signs are small stature and skin problems), in the same year $ 155 million was received from investors, including Fidelity Management & Research Company, Casdin Capital and WuXi Healthcare Ventures. The total investment in the company grew to $ 241 million, the value of the business at the end of 2015 was estimated at $ 1.1 billion ^[15] .

In May 2007, she married Google co-founder Sergey Brin ^[6] . Acquaintance with Bryn began from the time when the sister - Susan Wojicki - rented the garage to the founders of Google, where the future corporation started ^[15] . In December 2008, the son of Benji Wojin was born in marriage, at the end of 2011 the daughter of Chloe Wojin was born ^[16] . Since 2013, it was reported that the couple live separately, but they are not legally divorced ^{[17] [18]} , in March 2015 Wodzicki filed for divorce, in June 2015 the marriage was officially divorced ^[1] .